Title: breaking sites
Last modified: July 27, 2026

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# breaking sites

 *  [willspringtide2026](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willspringtide2026/)
 * (@willspringtide2026)
 * [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaking-sites-3/)
 * One star, and it’s about the release process, not the idea of the plugin.
 * Version 1.6.1 was published missing one of its own files. The main file (postcodes4U.
   php, line 44) still tries to include includes/Pc4u_AJAX.php, which isn’t in the
   package, so every page throws:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       Warning: include(includes/Pc4u_AJAX.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
       ```
   
 * Because that prints before the page headers, it cascades into “headers already
   sent” and breaks redirects and login across the whole site. A clean reinstall
   from the repository reproduces it exactly, so it’s the release itself — and it
   reached our production site automatically via auto-update, with no warning.
 * We only have a working site again because we had to patch the plugin ourselves.
   Users should never have to debug and edit a maintained plugin’s core file to 
   undo damage from an update. Please put basic release checks in place so a build
   that references a missing file can’t be published, and push a fixed 1.6.2.
 * it’s a matter of principle it seemed like basic test that they bother todo
    -  This topic was modified 2 weeks ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
    -  This topic was modified 2 weeks ago by [willspringtide2026](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willspringtide2026/).

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 *  Plugin Author [3XSoftware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandrac/)
 * (@sandrac)
 * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaking-sites-3/#post-18976272)
 * **I am sorry you felt led to leave this 1 Star review of our Plugin**.
   The Postcodes4u
   service and plugin has been given perfect service for many years and hundreds
   of users.I feel your description of the issue is unfair... There had been a major
   security update to the Postcodes4u Plugin. The plugin had passed all the tests
   on our local setup and selected sites – and **All** the files were there, BUT
   it appears that some server’s objected to the format of a new filename In no 
   way were the Sites ‘Broken’ – it only affected the Address forms with Postcode
   lookup, which is easy to temporally turn off from the Plugin while the issue 
   is resolved.
 * The fault was quickly identified by both internal testing – and most gratefully
   by users reporting the issue, and a fixed version has been uploaded.
   We are pround
   of our Support services for Postcodes4u, and am confident, that if you had contacted
   us this issue would have been amicably resolved.**_Postcodes4u Support_**
    -  This reply was modified 2 weeks ago by [3XSoftware](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandrac/).

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